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In Jaipure India a massive fire at an oil depot in western India had left ten people dead, as the blaze raged on after more than 48 hours according to an official report.

Due to fire, a suspected oil pipeline leak, broke out Thursday night at the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) compound on the outskirts of Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan.


B.L. Soni, a senior Jaipur police official, told AFP two bodies had been spotted near the facility but that rescuers could not retrieve them because the temperature from the fire was too high.

Further he said that the authorities believe that the bodies belong to two IOC employees who have been missing since the inferno began.

Eight other people died in the blaze, including three more employees, and their bodies had been recovered from the sceneand number of injured people are 135, officials said.

Posted by worldissues Sunday, November 1, 2009

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